A poem that makes me smile:)

Today I thought I would do something a bit different. I don't have any news to pass on so, I thought that I could post one of my favorite poems. This poem was given to me when I started working for Rescare. I have held this poem close while assisting my clients with various tasks. I hope you like it.

Beatitudes for Friends of Exceptional People

Blessed are you who take time to listen to difficult speech,

For you help us to know that if we persevere,

We can be understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places,

And ignore the stares of strangers,

For in your companionship,

We find a haven of peace.

Blessed are you who never bid us to "hurry up,"

And more blessed are you

Who do not snatch tasks from our hands to do them for us,

For often we need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside us

As we enter new and untried ventures,

For our failures will be outweighed

By the times we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you who ask for our help,

For our greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you when you assure us,

That the one thing that makes us individuals

Is not our peculiar muscles,

Nor our wounded nervous system,

Nor our difficulties in learning,

Nor any exterior difference,

But it is in our inner, personal, individual self

Which no infirmity can diminish or erase.

Author Unknown